IT2032 SOFTWARE TESTING VII Semester - Final Year - IT Department (ELECTIVE)

IT2032 SOFTWARE TESTING   (ELECTIVE)

UNIT I INTRODUCTION

Testing as an Engineering Activity – Role of Process in Software Quality – Testing as a

Process – Basic Definitions – Software Testing Principles – The Tester’s Role in a

Software Development Organization – Origins of Defects – Defect Classes – The Defect

Repository and Test Design – Defect Examples – Developer/Tester Support for

Developing a Defect Repository.

UNIT II TEST CASE DESIGN

Introduction to Testing Design Strategies – The Smarter Tester – Test Case Design

Strategies – Using Black Box Approach to Test Case Design Random Testing –

Requirements based testing – positive and negative testing -–– Boundary Value

Analysis – decision tables - Equivalence Class Partitioning state-based testing– causeeffect

graphing – error guessing - compatibility testing – user documentation testing –

domain testing Using White–Box Approach to Test design – Test Adequacy Criteria –

static testing vs. structural testing – code functional testing - Coverage and Control Flow

Graphs – Covering Code Logic – Paths – Their Role in White–box Based Test Design –

code complexity testing – Evaluating Test Adequacy Criteria.

UNIT III LEVELS OF TESTING

The Need for Levels of Testing – Unit Test – Unit Test Planning –Designing the Unit

Tests. The Test Harness – Running the Unit tests and Recording results – Integration

tests – Designing Integration Tests – Integration Test Planning – scenario testing –

defect bash elimination -System Testing – types of system testing - Acceptance testing –

performance testing - Regression Testing – internationalization testing – ad-hoc testing -

Alpha – Beta Tests – testing OO systems – usability and accessibility testing

UNIT IV TEST MANAGEMENT

People and organizational issues in testing – organization structures for testing teams –

testing services - Test Planning – Test Plan Components – Test Plan Attachments –

Locating Test Items – test management – test process - Reporting Test Results – The

role of three groups in Test Planning and Policy Development – Introducing the test

specialist – Skills needed by a test specialist – Building a Testing Group.

UNIT V CONTROLLING AND MONITORING

Software test automation – skills needed for automation – scope of automation – design

and architecture for automation – requirements for a test tool – challenges in automation

- Test metrics and measurements –project, progress and productivity metrics – Status

Meetings – Reports and Control Issues – Criteria for Test Completion – SCM – Types of

reviews – Developing a review program – Components of Review Plans– Reporting

Review Results. – evaluating software quality – defect prevention – testing maturity

model

 TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1. IIene Burnstein “Practical Software Testing” Springer International Edition Chennai,

2003

2. Srinivasan Desikan and Gopalaswamy Ramesh, “ Software Testing – Principles and

Practices”, Pearson education, 2006.. 3. Aditya P.Mathur, “Foundations of Software Testing”, Pearson Education,2008.